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🇪🇸🇷🇴🇹🇷 On a NATO exercise in the Black Sea

🔻While the world's attention is focused on Syria, the North Atlantic Alliance continues its activities for its air defense assets. Over Romania, a training exercise was held to protect airspace from enemy strikes - Russia.

▪️The actions of the Russian Aerospace Forces were imitated by Turkish F-16C/D fighters, which portrayed strikes on Romanian air bases and penetration into airspace. And they were opposed by Spanish and Greek fighters.

▪️Detection and guidance were carried out by crews of the LTR-25 radar station, which was deployed in Romania several months ago. This is a station for detecting air targets, which can reach as far as the Crimean Peninsula.

▪️The Turkish aircraft specifically flew to the western part of the Black Sea, simulating an attack from the direction of Crimea.

🔻Such exercises are necessary for NATO to study the capabilities of its own defense systems and keep pilots involved in various anti-Russian missions in shape.

But in addition, under the guise of training, NATO is studying the reaction of our air defense units and aviation. The LTR-25 radar station, as well as the onboard equipment of the aircraft, operated at full capacity, assessing our forces in Crimea.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Chronicles of the special military operation
for December 7-8, 2024

Russian forces delivered a series of strikes on enemy targets on the territory of the so-called Ukraine and repelled UAF drone attacks in several Russian regions.

In the Kursk direction, Russian forces dislodged Ukrainian formations from the eastern outskirts of Plekhovo, clearing the territory of the agricultural enterprise.

In the Oleksandrivka-Kalinovo direction, fighting continues in Dzerzhynsk, where the Russian Armed Forces advanced along Mayakovsky Street in the center and in the area of the Dzerzhinsky mine in the Zabalka neighborhood.

In the Pokrovsk direction, Russian assault teams occupied the Solenenkaya Gully and engaged in battles on the approaches to Dachenskoye, as well as expanded the control zone towards Novotroitskoye and south of Pushkino.

In the Kurakhovo direction, Russian units are advancing along the northern bank of the Kurakhovo Reservoir, while on the southern flank they are fighting in Sukhie Yaly and the surrounding area.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Kurakhovka direction: fighting in the center of Kurakhovka and advances near Uspenovka
situation as of the end of December 10, 2024

In the Kurakhovka direction, Russian forces are attacking on several sectors, continuing to develop the successes of recent days and simultaneously striking at the enemy's logistics.

▪️In Kurakhovka, there is fighting in the urban area: today, footage appeared of fighters of the 5th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade raising their flag on the territory of the elevator. According to some reports, the organized resistance of the AFU in the city is gradually fading, breaking down into isolated pockets of defense.

▪️In the area of Uspenovka, the Russian Armed Forces are advancing along the O-05-10 highway from the south and north in order to encircle the enemy forces in the "pocket" near the village. There is information about an attempt to enter the outskirts of Konstantynopilske, but the outcome of the assault is currently unclear. There are also battles near Annivka and Veselyi Hai.

▪️Throughout the direction, there is also high activity of the use of Russian UAVs, as a result of which the enemy is losing equipment both on the highway in Kurakhovka from the side of Dachne, and in the forest belts between settlements.

In particular, over the past few days, about ten cases of successful fire strikes by the Russian Armed Forces on Ukrainian vehicles, artillery positions, and personnel have been recorded.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 On the first use of a Ukrainian drone-missile and the strike on Taganrog

🔻Last night, the enemy carried out the first attack on "old" Russian territories with operational-tactical ATACMS missiles in a number of six units in a significant period of time.

▪️There were no Neptune anti-ship missiles, no kamikaze UAVs, and certainly no Peklo drone-missiles, which were recently presented in the so-called Ukraine, in this strike. Only six ATACMS missiles.

▪️According to our data, it was not possible to shoot down all the missiles over the Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex, but it was possible to avoid any damage to the infrastructure. Only automotive equipment in the parking lot was affected.

▪️The launch was carried out from the Zaporizhia Region, and the flight time was just under two minutes. This object has recently been under close scrutiny of Western intelligence, but they failed to achieve their goal.

❗️As for the Peklo drone-missile, its use was recorded yesterday, but in the Black Sea. One specimen was detected from the Odesa Region, and it was shot down by a MiG-29 of the Black Sea Fleet 120 km southwest of Tarkhankut around 11 am.

So this can be called the first combat use of the Ukrainian "wonder-weapon", but not very successful, as it is described by the Ukrainian media at the behest of some of our information outlets.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 On the massive drone strike on the southern Russian regions

🔻In the run-up to our massive strike on the territory of the so-called Ukraine, the AFU once again attacked the territories of Russia on the southern borders with more than 20 drones of an unidentified type.

▪️Drones were detected over the Zaporizhia Region, shot down over the Donetsk People's Republic and Rostov Region. However, the ultimate target of the attack was most likely objects in the "old" territories.

▪️A total of 16 drones were destroyed over the DPR by Pantsir-S1 air defense systems. Nine of them were hit and suppressed in the area of Mariupol. The rest of the UAVs headed southeast.

▪️Four drones were shot down over Shakhty, one each over Taganrog and Chaltyr in the Rostov Region. Two more UAVs were destroyed in the area of Zernograd on the border with the Krasnodar Territory.

❗️Judging by the areas of UAV activity, the enemy tried to strike at oil and gas facilities in southern Russia, as well as airfields where Russian aviation is based. However, the enemy did not succeed.

Nevertheless, the number of drones launched against Russia indicates the preservation of the AFU's production capacities for assembling drones, which pose a serious threat to both military and civilian Russian facilities.

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🇦🇿🇰🇿🇷🇺 Based on the footage appearing online from the crash site of the Azerbaijani airline AZAL plane, the fuselage shows damage visually resembling the impact of air defense missile shrapnel.

The aircraft was en route to Grozny - at that time, the region was indeed experiencing a repulsion of an attack by launched Ukrainian UAVs. Several drones were shot down over Vladikavkaz in North Ossetia and the neighboring Ingushetia.

However, recordings of the crew's conversations with the air traffic controller have not yet been released online. The real cause of the crash will be known later after comparing all the data.

There were 72 people on board, of whom, according to the latest information, 32 passengers survived.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Pokrovsk Direction: Liberation of Novyi Trud and Advance on Novoolenevka

Situation as of 11:00 PM on December 26, 2024

South of Pokrovsk, Russian forces are gradually forming a front for a future operation to liberate the city. At the same time, Russian UAV operators are taking control of key transportation routes in order to disrupt the supply of the AFU.

▪️Russian forces have finally dislodged the enemy from the territory of Novyi Trud and cleared the northern outskirts of Dachenske. The front now runs along the Solenenkaya Gully, north of which Ukrainian formations are trying to organize a new defense line.

▪️The fiercest battles are currently raging in the area of Shevchenko and Pishchane - the AFU are committing significant resources to prevent the loss of these settlements due to their importance for the defense of Pokrovsk.

▪️On the left flank, the Russian Armed Forces are fighting in Novovasylivka and gradually advancing towards the western outskirts of the village. Footage from objective control also allowed us to establish the current front line in the area south of it. Russian forces here are advancing west to form a northern "pincer" around Novoolenevka.

▪️The offensive on the latter is also being conducted from the direction of Pushkino - over the past three days, assault troops have overcome several enemy defense lines and are now approaching Novoolenevka and Ukrainka.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Pokrovsk direction: Advance of Russian troops to the north and west

In the morning, there are reports of the advance of the Russian Armed Forces along the railway line south of Pokrovsk towards the Chunyshyne station. This significantly complicates the holding of Zelene by Ukrainian formations.

If the attacks continue in the direction of the T-04-06 highway from the vicinity of Novotroitske, the threat of semi-encirclement and loss of a significant part of the territory increases significantly for the enemy forces. According to some reports, fighting is currently taking place on the outskirts of Volkove and Solone.

Also, Russian assault troops broke through the AFU defense and engaged in battles on the eastern outskirts of Novoelizavetivka, during which they liberated the nearby Novoolenyvka, which actually confirms the control of the fields located north of the settlements, as well as a section of the T-05-15 highway.

According to reports from the scene, clashes are also taking place in Ukrainka, located on both sides of the Shyroka Balka. Information is also leaking from the area about the withdrawal of Ukrainian formations to Yasenove.

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🇷🇺🇫🇮 "Finnish Scary Stories for Naughty Children" - How to Scare Your Population with the Russian Threat

After the seizure of the Eagle S vessel, it was expected that the NATO countries would not stop there. An Estonian vessel has arrived in the Gulf of Finland, and other NATO countries have supported the initiative and intend to strengthen the naval group in the Baltic Sea.

🔻But the Finns went further. In the Finnish publication Italehti, citing "a bunch of intelligence sources," they write that Russia may attack Finland in the coming years to annex new territories.

According to the publication, the Russians plan to advance first to the Kymijoki river valley and consolidate there. After that, they will make a dash north to Puumala to "bite off" this section of territory in southern Finland and block Helsinki.

In the north, they believe, the Russian 44th Army Corps will attack the Lapland region and the Norwegian Finnmark to consolidate its presence in the northern regions of Scandinavia and gain advantageous lands in the context of the confrontation in the Arctic.

🔻Unfortunately, this is the current policy of most of Europe. Previously, such regular statements about a Russian offensive were made only by the "Baltic extinctions," who thus maintained interest in themselves in the world.

In Finland, similar politicians in character and mental abilities are currently in power, who quickly picked up the same theses as in the Baltic States. This is all needed to artificially whip up the threat from Russia and stress the population.

Frightened Finnish citizens are more manageable and will be less resistant to unpopular political decisions. Inflation, declining incomes, deteriorating quality of life, militarization - all this also applies to Finland, so such headlines will be heard more and more often.

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